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My understanding, from speaking with someone at Facebook who has worked in this area, is that they are primarily empowered to do individual fixes. I.e. they do
by agd 5y ago
My understanding, from speaking with someone at Facebook who has worked in this area, is that they are primarily empowered to do individual fixes. I.e. they do root cause analysis on why content X was correctly/incorrectly handled, update processes, and repeat.
The problem instead seems to be a systemic one. i.e. What kinds of posts does the platform incentivise and promote as a whole? However, changing the system would require significant product updates and harm the bottom line, as it would likely result in lower engagement.
We're also in this weird position where politicians seem to want to hold platforms accountable for content which is legal, but objectionable. This is also exacerbated by employee activists wanting to do the same.
- lupire 5y ago"Illegal" is the standard for justifying government use of force, but not for business or private citizen actions, or even for non compulsory government pressure. The government is empowered to "promote the general welfare" per the Constitution. Also, the government holds me accountable for my income via taxes, despite by income being legal. Everyone who proposes a change is an "activist" but some are activists for money and not other principles.
- sayhar 5y ago> The problem instead seems to be a systemic one. i.e. What kinds of posts does the platform incentivise and promote as a whole? These are the big questions we want to be tackling.
- mzs 5y ago>The problem instead seems to be a systemic one. i.e. What kinds of posts does the platform incentivise and promote as a whole? However, changing the system would require significant product updates and harm the bottom line, as it would likely result in lower engagement. It took me an hour but I made FB enjoyable for me again by making it a feed that is just my friends in chronological order. As a bonus there is no good way for the system that decides what to show me to be gamed, I just bookmark this: https://facebook.com/?sk=h_chr https://facebook.com/?sk=h_chr Preventing all the groups and pages I had interacted with before from creeping into that feed was the time consuming but worthwhile part. I had to go into my groups settings & unfollow them all individually though: https://facebook.com/groups/feed/ https://facebook.com/groups/feed/ same for pages: https://www.facebook.com/pages/?category=liked&ref=bookmarks https://www.facebook.com/pages/?category=liked&ref=bookmarks
- lanerobertlane 5y ago> https://facebook.com/?sk=h_chr https://facebook.com/?sk=h_chr That's just the "Most recent" option from the left hand menu (or the burger menu) on the Facebook website? https://i.imgur.com/NQlh7lZ.png https://i.imgur.com/NQlh7lZ.png